Chapter 355 - Romantic Night (3)

26 April, City Centre, City K

Lexi was surprised when they pulled up to a parking spot close to the point where the city's observation wheel was. It was strange there was no restaurants in the area, so what did Matthew have planned.

As the climbed out of the vehicle Warrant Officer Wang moved in and quietly said, "Everything is organised. While they wanted to argue over us having the food catered once they realised who you were, they gave up easily on that. We checked everything out and have people in both the mechanical room and the operations room while you are on board."

It was then it clicked for Lexi. Some of the cabins in the Observation Wheel at night turned into private dining rooms. Each was a tailored to the booking with the meal, drinks, and the requests of the booking party determining the number of revolutions on the wheel they would go. "You booked this?"

"Lexi, you deserve something special and I wanted to commemorate the day…"

"Turn off the sweetness you two," came a voice from behind. Lexi turned and noticed Steven, Phillip, Chester, Rachael, Andrew, and Sally.

Lexi spat out "Dominic, where is he?"

Andrew calmly responded "Stop stressing out little sister. He is with Sally's parents, but we will pick him up…"

"After he harasses my parents to give him sugar," said the approaching John, who was accompanied by Bronwyn Li.

Lexi looked at Matthew and said "Why?"

Matthew leaned in and said "We were out with friends and family that night, so I wanted to echo the past…"

Loudly Steven interrupted "Where is Paul and Joan?"

"You think I would be left out of this," came Paul's voice from off to the right. Surprisingly, Abigail was with him, but she was looking around nervously. She seemed not to know what to make of things.

Matthew, paused and said "Joan was invited but refused…"

Phillip interrupted saying "Apparently she has left the family company. I was meant to have a meeting with her yesterday but her idiot two brothers showed up, and said she had abandoned them, but refused to say anything else about why before demanding that I sign the contracts with them for the collaboration. But you can guess what I did…"

Paul added "Told those idiots where to go. No one with any business sense would deal with them. But has anyone heard from Joan in the last few days?"

After a shake of heads Matthew said "I was able to briefly speak to her when I issued the invitation but all she said was that she just needed some time away from everyone, but would explain things in the near future."

Chester said, "Why in the world did you get us here?"

"A night out for all…"

Steven held up his hands "Do not say it, you lot can be sickening, and I will turn and leave if you do." This drew some laughter.

"Give me a chance. There is something special about today for Lexi and me, but we owe each of you for the last few weeks, so I wanted to make something special. I have booked for the lot of you two cabin meals on the wheel. How you split yourselves is up to you, but there is no way that you will be with us…"

"In other words, thank you but leave us alone?" John said interrupting Matthew.

"You took the words out of my mouth," responded Matthew. "But I would ask your girlfriend about what could be coming your way."

"Boss!" came the shocked but firm response from Bronwyn. Just before John had arrived to pick her up, she had received a telephone call from her father. It was obvious that he was using the excuse of an inspection to come and check out her boyfriend. That was something she did not want to deal with presently as, even given his background her father would be intimidating.

John looked and all Bronwyn said is "My parents know about us and want to meet you…"

"You know I have been trying to get you to introduce your parents to me…" John turned and looked at Matthew directly saying "You know her parents. Tell!"

"Not my place John, but I will give you a warning be careful."

Lexi turned, and placed her hand on Matthew's. Matthew knew that Lexi was starting to get worried, and that was not what tonight was about. With that he turned and started to lead everyone towards the base of the observation wheel, with Warrant Officer Wang going ahead.

As they arrived Matthew turned and noticed that their friends had split themselves into two groups one of four and the other of six.

Noticing he signal from Warrant Officer Wang, they headed to the embarkation area for diners, and sat down for a safety briefing for their dinner. Matthew totally tuned out, as like the other observation wheels in the country with similar services, he had received copies of their safety plans for all types of emergencies. Listen to the announcements, do nothing to cause too dramatic of movement in the cabin, remain seated, no smoking and that in the case of an emergency they would be evacuated as soon as possible. In his own mind, it was as if. They would have to get services in to get people out of the cabins if the wheel ground to a halt, but they did not want to scare civilians.

Once the staff were happy, they led them out to await boarding, Matthew ready for Lexi to see the various bouquets of roses he had placed in their cabin. The florist was quite helpful with the meaning of the various gifts of roses and choosing between the messages was challenging. In the end he opted for two separate bouquets, one of ninety-nine roses as it meant love you forever inside the cabin and one with twenty-seven (an expression of how much he loved his wife) to hand her before boarding. Matthew took two steps back and was handed the bouquet before moving back to Lexi and handing it to her.

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